05102cam a2200601 a 4500001001300000003000600013005001700019008004100036010001700077015001900094016001800113020002900131020003200160020001800192020001500210024002400225035009400249040021400343050001600557100009600573245004200669260005700711300004500768336002600813504006700839505024500906506005301151520169501204650004202899650003202941650003802973650004003011650003803051650002803089650002003117650002003137650002003157650002403177650002303201650004703224650003703271653004303308655001803351758014803369773006603517776013403583776013403717856010403851856011303955856021704068856011004285856010504395ocm10949797 OCoLC20250821133051.0840627s1985 maua b 001 0 eng  a 84012934  aGB88287592bnb7 a0119699382Uk a0674144406q(alk. paper) a9780674144408q(alk. paper) a9780674144415 a06741444147 a2027/heb.320092hdl a(OCoLC)10949797z(OCoLC)17916407z(OCoLC)1145195767z(OCoLC)1153243845z(OCoLC)1165725255 aDLCbengcGAFCSC LIBRARYdOCLCAdOCLCGdDHAdUKUOYdOCLCQdS#LdOCLCOdCPSdOCLCOdOCLCQdOCLCOdCNTRUdOCLCAdBWNdIL4J6dEUNdOCLCOdLVTdUNOMPdS2HdOCLCOdOCLCQdNKMdOCLCOdOCLCLdOCLCQdOCLCLdIG#dOCLCL00aUB212bV11 1 aVan Creveld, Martin,d1946-1https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxd44jGDMY7DWQfyTdJDq10aCommand in war /cMartin van Creveld. aCambridge, Mass. :bHarvard University Press,c1985. avii, 339 pages :billustrations ;c25 cm atextbtxt2rdacontent aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 320-332) and index.0 aIntroduction : on command -- The stone age of command -- The revolution in strategy -- Railroads, rifles, and wires -- The timetable war -- Masters of mobile warfare -- The helicopter and the computer -- Conclusion : reflections on command. aACLS e-books permit unlimited multi-user access. aMany books have been written about strategy, tactics, and great commanders. This is the first book to deal exclusively with the nature of command itself, and to trace its development over two thousand years from ancient Greece to Vietnam. It treats historically the whole variety of problems involved in commanding armies, including staff organization and administration, communications methods and technologies, weaponry, and logistics. And it analyzes the relationship between these problems and military strategy. In vivid descriptions of key battles and campaigns--among others, Napoleon at Jena, Moltke's K�oniggr�atz campaign, the Arab-Israeli war of 1973, and the Americans in Vietnam--van Creveld focuses on the means of command and shows how those means worked in practice. He finds that technological advances such as the railroad, breech-loading rifles, the telegraph and later the radio, tanks, and helicopters all brought commanders not only new tactical possibilities but also new limitations. Although vast changes have occurred in military thinking and technology, the one constant has been an endless search for certainty--certainty about the state and intentions of the enemy's forces; certainty about the manifold factors that together constitute the environment in which war is fought, from the weather and terrain to radioactivity and the presence of chemical warfare agents; and certainty about the state, intentions, and activities of one's own forces. The book concludes that progress in command has usually been achieved less by employing more advanced technologies than by finding ways to transcend the limitations of existing ones. -- Publisher's description. 0aCommand and control systemsxHistory. 0aCommand of troopsxHistory. 6aCommandement militairexHistoire. 6aCommandement des troupesxHistoire. 7aCommand and control systems2fast 7aCommand of troops2fast 7aF�uhrung2gnd 7aGeschichte2gnd 7aMilit�ar2gnd17aOorlogvoering.2gtt17aBevelvoering.2gtt 7aCommand and control systemsxHistory.2nli 7aCommand of troopsxHistory.2nli aMilitary operationsaCommand & control 7aHistory2fast ihas work:aCommand in war (Text)1https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCFw3VvJDckbGRPCfwpCvVy4https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork0 tACLS Humanities E-Book.nURL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/08iOnline version:aVan Creveld, Martin, 1946-tCommand in war.dCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1985w(OCoLC)55840113508iOnline version:aVan Creveld, Martin, 1946-tCommand in war.dCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1985w(OCoLC)60836816741zElectronic access restricted; authentication may be required:uhttp://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.32009 uhttp://library.ncl.ac.uk/openurl/?u.ignore_date_coverage=true&rft.mms_id=9912345831702411p5311527549000241141zGo button View this e-book onlineuhttps://liverpool.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.3200942uhttp://libanswers.liverpool.ac.uk/faq/182315zReading advice (software, printing, accessibility, privacy)41zElectronic access restricted; authentication may be required:uhttps://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.32009